Police say a man that was stabbed at Weston College this afternoon was not a student at the college.

Emergency services were called to the college shortly after 2pm after the 19 year old turned up at the college with serious injuries to ask for help.

He told staff he had been stabbed nearby at St John’s Football Club in Coleridge Road. He has been taken to hospital. Police are treating the incident as an assault and have launched a hunt for his attacker. The man's injuries are not thought to be life threatening.